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“When Clement Greenberg developed his canonical account of American-style painting, he identified Jackson Pollock and the other Abstract Expressionists as heirs to early twentieth-century French modernism. China has very distinguished modernists, the great Wu Guangzhong, who was born in 1919,
“Shortly after the liberation of Holland, Han van Meegeren, a painter and art dealer living in Amsterdam was arrested for collaboration with the Third Reich. He was accused among other things of having sold a Vermeer to Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring
The paltry offerings from Australian art critics sojourning in Italy for the 2009 Venice Biennale have been thus far the usual predictable fare – pithy putdowns for art they have no time for, offering instead a blanket refusal to engage
It turns out that not only is Sean Lowry a doctor, but he’s also a former member of herbal-hippy-metal band Def FX. For those who came in late – or perhaps have conveniently forgotten what it was like – the
H I G H R E F L E C T I O N S #2 Seaworthy Kusum Onani 8pm Saturday 30th May Serial Space 33 Wellington St Chippendale Seaworthy is known for his wonderfully fragile guitar, field recordings
Good Song by Blur, a video by David Shrigley, from YouTube. Can’t see the funny sad video? Click here to view
Excerpts from the films of James Whitney, early pioneer of computer animation… James Whitney, Yantra, 1957. “Between 1950 and 1955, Witney laboured to construct a truly astounding masterpiece, Yantra. The film was produced entirely by hand. By punching grid patterns
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Herb & Dorothy Trailer, via YouTube. “Do you have to be a Medici or a Rockefeller to collect art? “Not according to Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. This documentary film tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a postal clerk, and Dorothy,
“Slats was the first lion used for the newly-formed studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919. Slats was used on all black and white MGM films between 1924 and 1928. The original logo was